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chaos420 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-01-2009, 01:19 PM

This is my grow journal! I'm finally doing it!

Here are pictures of my setup-

Note, like I've said before, I grow VEGETABLES.

I have a couple "beans" germinating, and they will go in the box as soon as they poke above the soil. Right now they are in small dixie cups, and at 76F. I have an abundance of schwag seeds so I'm just letting them germinate in my soil mix au naturale.

The box runs at about 85F, but I plan on getting a better fan system hooked up. I figure since my seeds are nothing special, I at least have a few weeks before I have to worry about odor. All I need is a dimmer. If I get caught off guard, I'll probably get a couple of those glade odor eliminator charcoal filters and plug them in the top, by the exhaust.

I removed the HEPA filter from the intake for the picture. (Its just glued in place- I have some little round HEPA pads that I use.)

BTW, if anyone's curious, I'll tell you what I have growing now.
The green bucket has lettuce and peppers, the red bucket has basil on the left side, cilantro on the bottom right and chives on the top right. They only sprouted a little over a week ago, and have survived my fiddling. I really just wanted a dry run before I planted anything valuable in it, and so far I'm impressed.

When the "Beans" get too big for a little 8oz cup, then I'll probably put them in a shallow pan that covers the bottom of the box. That way I get maximum soil volume, and maximum grow height. I plan on throwing some lowryders in when they arrive...

You can't tell in the pictures, but the lights are lowered to 1-2 inches from the plants.

420oclock · #2 (**permalink**) 04-01-2009, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by chaos420

All I need is a dimmer.

Remember to make certain that the controller you use for the fan is ok to be used for that purpose. Your typical lamp dimmer should not be used for an ac motor.

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chaos420 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-01-2009, 03:53 PM

Well I bought the fan motor for $3. I'd hate to spend 30 on the dimmer....

tokecrazy · #4 (**permalink**) 04-01-2009, 11:01 PM

harbor freight has router speed controler for $19.95 and on sale for $9.95.That will do the job.Here's a pix of the box with a pix of the controler. Peace

chaos420 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-20-2009, 02:25 PM

It's really been a while, so I don't know if anyone's interested in an update.
It seems I've had a run of bad luck with my box...

I planted the lowryders and let the original ones keep veging. After 4 weeks the lowryders began to flower. I got exited

Unfonatunately of the 5 seeds, 1 died as a sprout and 3 were male.... Leaving 1 female.

I let the males and female pollinate and set seed. When the male flowers were all open, I dusted the female with the pollen and water-cured the males so I could cook with them. I could see the calyxs swell and periodically I would cut one off to see if the seeds were done. (I know I could have waited until they split open, but oh well.)
Suddenly, one morning I checked on my wonderfully aromatic female, and she looked a little dry so I gave her some water. The next morning, she was dead. Completely dry.
Seems like she got root rot. I got a ton of seeds, but none of them were that perfect shiny mottled brown color. Upon closer examination, most were either deformed or greenish-white. Only 25 seemed to be decent looking. I got around to trying to germinate some of the seeds... 10 on a wet paper towel. Keeping it moist in a dark place, and somewhat warm, in a bookshelf.
I went out of town for a couple days, and came back to notice my room was strangely silent- I couldn't hear any fans. I frantically opened the lid to my box and was hit in the face with hot humid air. The temperature said 108 and my plants that were growing since april and just beginning the flower were scorched. All the young flowers except one were burnt beyong recognition, and a bulb socket had melted the glue and fallen directly on one of my plants, burning it at ground level.

So now I'm resting on a badly scorched mystery strain with about 5 leaves, several chopped off-branches and one possible flowering tip, and two barely-sprouted "Super Skunk" seeds that a friend gave me... Even if they're male, I'll get three things out of them- Experience, Pollen to freeze for my future breeding endeavers, and some leaves to water-cure.

GreenGoblin · #6 (**permalink**) 06-20-2009, 02:32 PM

Wow.. sorry about your bad luck. Everything is a learning experience, like you said. I guess you can feel lucky that you didn't run into bigger issues with things catching fire... I always worry if I am away, and have gotten into putting a webcam up that I can remote.. just to see what is going on.

justanotherbozo · #7 (**permalink**) 06-20-2009, 03:33 PM

Green is right, try and be grateful you didn't return to find your house had burned
to the ground in your absence.

live and learn.